Camping Trip: Photo 02

Seen on the bank of the river at Devils Den Campground. Kind of reminds me of those stock photos you seen on business websites.

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Camping Trip: Photo 01

Over Labor Day weekend, I went camping with my family in Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas. It was a beautiful campground with many things to do. There's a little river that runs through the campground, and while we were there, I came across this little fellow. He let me get right next to him to take some awesome pictures.

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Photo 7-9-08

Every once in a while, I'll come across a cloud formation or sunset that is really awesome, and I'll want to take a picture, but I won't have a camera with me. That's probably the main reason I've started the habit of carrying one with me whenever possible. This picture is from one of the few times I happened to have a camera with me, though it's taken with a disposable through the window of a moving vehicle. Even so, I still really like it.

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Fourth of July

I hope everyone had a safe Fourth of July!


I spent the day at my parents' house, and we shot off some fireworks after it got dark. I brought my camera, which actually has a "fireworks" setting, so I took a bunch of pictures. The setting has a long exposure time though, and I didn't bring my tripod, so some of them look a little shaky. I'll have to remember that for next time.

I think the fountains look really cool as photographs since it shows them over time.

We had a total of four sets of artillery shells that we screwed down to a board. We were able to light all four at once, which was really neat. The photo at the top shows three of them exploding at the same time.

This last picture was kind of cool; my mom, dad, brother, and I all lit a roman candle at the same time and stood next to each other. I took a picture with my free hand (you can see my other hand holding the roman candle on the left side).

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Photo 7-3-08

A few years ago, we had a huge snowstorm (this was before we upgraded to ice only). I took my trusty disposable camera and went for a walk through the woods behind my house. What I considered to be the best photo was given to a friend of mine as a birthday present (only had one set of prints developed), but this one came in at a close second.

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Photo 7-2-08

This is a photo from my trip to France. Sadly, I can't remember the name of this particular chateau. It was really neat and connected to a small island in the middle of the river. We were able to go through it and walk around freely, so I wandered off a bit and took this picture. I love the storybook feel it's got going on.

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Photo 7-1-08

This is the Colosseum in Rome from my trip to Europe a couple years ago. It was truly a magnificent thing to behold, and was probably the highlight of my trip. I've always been fascinated by ancient Rome, and to actually go inside some of the places I had only dreamed of visiting was an awesome experience.

I love the angle I was able to capture for this photo. We were taking a guided tour, so most of my pictures were either rushed, or had scores of people in them. This one is mostly empty, except for the tops of two peoples' heads off to the right and an arm jutting out toward the bottom. Still, I can't complain; this is one of my favorite pictures from the trip.

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Photo 6-30-08

This might be my favorite cloud photo that I've taken. At the very least, it's the one I've used the most in various design projects.

Also, I'm going to dig up some old pictures and try to post one every day this week to make up for the long dry spell of no posts.

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Photo 5-11-08

It was raining pretty hard the other day; we had tornado sirens going off and everything. After it let up, I went outside and noticed this leaf at the bottom of my front steps.

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